Charles Rosen died aged 85 on December 9th 2012:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rosen
To visit the pianist and thinker Charles Rosen, you walked down a long corridor lined with bookshelves, past the complete works of famous and obscure writers, past a cabinet containing old French spoons, glassware, strange utensils—true dusty bric-a-brac, the fruits of decades of Parisian browsing. At the end of the corridor was the nerve center: a piano stacked with music
http://www.newyorker.com/onlin...t-charles-rosen.html
Recent Video:
http://vimeo.com/55583114?acti..._112504608918315#_=_

Better than a boring cement path!

Chatsworth House Steinway Piano
As a matter of interest, if you can play the piano then staff at Chatsworth House will let you play this beautiful Steinway, just ask!
http://www.kevinjaffray.com/ch...house-steinway-piano

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Originally posted by LL:
Better than a boring cement path!

I want one!

Interesting take on public performance
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11...at-central-park.html

Repurposed Piano

Ha! I wonder if it is all saloon songs pasted on that piano?

(Belly Up to the Bar, Boys!)

Is Piano in your DNA?

Well you know, it's OK for tying up the beans...

HA!

Here's one

Door to your piano room?

LL - it is LUDWIGS wheels!

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Originally posted by Brian Becroft:
LL - it is LUDWIGS wheels!

HA!

You are a much better 'finder' than I! Love it!

Terry Berlier - The Beginning and the End Meet (Prototype), 2012
88 piano keys, apple laptop, computer keyboard microcontroller, wire, wire nuts, wood spool, wood, copper pipe, screws, speakers 32 x 51 x 51"
http://gender.stanford.edu/new...fill-waste-works-art
http://www.kqed.org/arts/visua...icle.jsp?essid=81885
This piece reconfigures the well-known solo instrument into a circular and group playing device. All materials were salvaged from the San Francisco dump including a working ibook computer, upright piano parts and a dell computer keyboard micro-controller.

HA! Gotcha on this one, Brian...





Oh, but darn...its a PR stunt and the piano is cardboard!!!!